With only 2 ports and the widespread adoption of USB-C/Thunderbolt monitors that supply PD, I'm going with a significant number of people use monitors, docks, and hubs with PD. Hundreds of thousands at least. Four or five reports on MacRumors isn't significant.
so let’s say a 100,000 users within a couple of months of launch- and the device is not even widely available
We have :
- 3 users referenced in a single post on this page itself
- multiple user reports scattered over the boards - let’s say 10?
Majority of users with a failure on a new device will simply return it to the point of purchase..
Only a small fraction of them would report it on forums
A subset of those will report it on macrumors - so I don’t know, say 1% of affected users?
Even conservatively speaking, that would indicate that the numbers may not be widespread but statistically significant enough to imply a possible correlation .
With scattered reports, it is hard to hazard a guess as to what combination leads to this but passthrough PD seems to be the common element.
It could very well be a software issue (hopefully) with the charge controller chip
It could be something else entirely..Or I could be completely wrong and it is indeed a random event not connected to PD at all.
But unless I were living in close proximity of an apple store and am OK with possible delays in repair/replacement, I would rather avoid passthrough and use a 2 cable solution (which adds say 10 extra seconds to my workflow) till there is some more clarity on this
